Meanings of desecrate by in English

The key, however, was sometimes wanting to some repository, whose contents they were perhaps unwilling to desecrate by showing them to the unbeliever.

The shrines of Minerva will not be desecrated by their presence.

On this account the people were enslaved and the temple desecrated by the Persians.

A hall in Philadelphia which had been desecrated by an abolition conference, was burned.

Her physical purity was desecrated by-shewouldn't think of it.

The rooms cannot be desecrated by eating, I am told.

Not a word interrupted the silence now desecrated by the noise of the opening door.

The Temple Courts were desecrated by images and the Temple itself defiled by idolatrous practices.

The interior was desecrated by uncouth figures of animals, portrayed upon the walls with charcoal.

The huge shaft lies on the ground, prostrate, and desecrated by all sorts of abominations.

They would not like it to have the Sabbath desecrated by card-playing on the train.'

But I have no fear that I shall thus be desecrated by my surviving friends.

It was desecrated by the Communards 1811, when the building was used as a military depot.

He shrunk from the word, because it had been desecrated by the world; but it was Genius.

Mamie-his Mamie-should never go back to the cabin, since desecrated by Slinn's daughters, and take their places.

'And is not that better than the subjects being desecrated by illumination?'